Category: tips
tips on projects for balance
It’s the time of year that often finds knitters and crocheters frantic and stressed. Holiday deadlines can affect the most diligent of planners. I’m going to suggest something bizarre — I think that you can and should add one more project during this time. When it’s the right type of project worked at specific times,…
Keeping track of my needles & hooks
My tendency isn’t one of tidy order. My desk is often chaos and the contents of my knitting bag is often just as cluttered. That’s why I make a regular self-appointment to clean up my needles and hooks. While they should either be in a specific project bag or put away, that isn’t often the…
by weights and measures
One of my favourite ways to design is by the weight of yarn I have. I’ll work a design until half the yarn remains then finish it off. However, my scale wears other hats and is used in the kitchen when I bake and has helped weigh foster kittens. I think the heftier resident cats…
3 tips for choosing a writing instrument
While my focus here is primarily on the tools directly related to the fiber arts, I am particular about every tool I use. Several months ago I wrote about my notebooks. Today’s post will explore how I choose what I use to write inside that book. Choose what you like Just because all the cool…
self care & big projects
It’s important in the midst of big projects and looming deadlines to take short breaks to prevent burnout (and creator fatigue error). As Abby Glassenberg writes in her newest article for Sew News, perhaps it’s time to move away from the term selfish crafting. I’m facing multiple deadlines this week, the time changed, and we…
three tips: join being careful not to twist
There are six simple words that strike dread every time, “join being careful not to twist”. My brain groans and sighs with an “I know!” and I set out to make a careful join. I rarely get it right on the first try. Or the second. For instance, take this lovely foundation chain of over…